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First Aired - 04/20/2010 05:00PM
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Michael Lovullo & Sean McCain join as guests as the guys talk session beers, hop varietals and Pennsylvania beer culture.
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Beer Sessions Introduction (15:37)
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Heritage Radio Network, Beer Sessions, Jimmy Carbone, Samuel Merritt, Good Beer Seal, JImmy's No. 43, Civilization of Beer, Cicerone Certification Program, Beer Dudes, Michael Lovullo, Sam is curating the beer at Bonnaroo, Sierra Nevada, Magic Hat, Brooklyn Brewery, Victory Brewery, Sam was Seans gateway into craft beer, Happy Hour Guys, essay contest, Sean won the essay contest, Union Beer Wholesalers, B United, showcasing different hops varieties with one style of beer, Craft Beer Conference, chicago, Belgian Pale Ale, even bittering process, Braumesiter Series, unfiltired pislner with a single hop varital, Pursuit Pale, citri-hop, English Malt, Union Beer, www.greatbrewers, one of the best distributors, no other brewery highlights a single hop year round, Mikkeller, Pretty Things, gypsy brewers, West Coast hop, English hop, German hop, terroir for hops is very important, terroir, Hersbrucker hop variety,The Guys List Their Top 5 Session Beers (15:28)
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how would you define a session beer?, up to 6% or 6.5%, cool refreshing beer to drink whenever, lunch beer, Top 5 Session Beers, Sam's personal non-professional list:, Brooklyn Lager, Allagash White Ale, Blue Point Toasted Lager, Victory Prima Pils, Lagunitas IPA, Mike's list, Victory All Malt Lager, Sixpoint Brownstone, North Coast Red Seal Ale, Saison DuPont, Seans list:, Victory Braumeister Pils, Sixpoint Sweet Action, Troegs Hopback, Ommegang Widows, Jimmy's list:, Coniston Bluebird Bitter, Reissdorf Kolsch, Stoudt's Kolsch, Troeg's Dreamweaver, Cisco Sankaty Lighthouse Lager, Victory Baltic Thunder, 8.5% Baltic Porter, hops used for acidity for preservation, strong beers, stale ale added to beer to referment and add a rustic taste, Heavyweight Brewing Co., went out of existence in the summer of 2006, barley wine essence, tasting notes, Ocean County New Jersey, Earth Bread Brewery, www.earthbreadbrewery.com, Terra Fume, American Wheat Ale, Philadelphia, happy 420!, it's more about the people than the brand names, grilled cheese and beer pairings,Pennsylvania Beers & Victory Brewing Co (15:26)
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Pennsylvania beers and breweries, there are many breweries in the area, Philadelphia is a brewtopia, Carol Stoudt, Rugged Trail, Brown Ale, Sly Fox, Troges, Iron City, Pittsburgh, the oldest operating brewery in the country is from Pennsylvania, German and Czech immigrants, drinking culture, www.victorybeer.com, Victory Brewing Co, Victory did just under 50,000 barrels of beer, one of the most high tech breweries in the US, microbreweries make under 15,000 barrels, carbon footprint, Victory gets a lot of hops from Germany and Czech Republic, whole flour hops, American style beers have hops from the pacific northwest, getting as local as possible, ingredients as a selling point, Victory Harvest Pils, fresh hop beer, hops from the Finger Lakes, Southern Tier, Great Divide, Sierra Nevada, the nose of a harvest beer, dry hopping vs wet hopping, Belgian beers, IBU, International Bitterness Units, Amarillo Hops, aroma hop, Victory Helios, Saison Athene, Saint Somewhere Brewing, bar events: Liquids of Interest every Monday at d.b.a. Brooklyn, cheese & kimchee tasting with Anne Saxelby at Jimmy's, British Invasion at Bar Great Harry, Smutty nose Event at Blind Tiger, Greenport Harbor night at Barcade, stinky cheese and stinky beer at Beer Table, Silence of the Lambics, Bree O'Conner, email beersessions@gmail.com,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 01/04/2011 05:00PM
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Happy New Beers! Jimmy & Ray are back and stronger than ever on a vibrant and fun episode of Beer Sessions Radio (TM). The guys are joined by Dan McLaughin of The Pony Bar and Jen Schwertman & Dave Brodrick of Blind Tiger. Official Beer Sessions Radio Beer Sommelier Sam Merrit also joins the show. The gang discusses how draft lines affect the quality of beer, Dave's near death experience, the notion of bad beer pairings & hipster angst against craft beer. Tune in and learn the REAL story of how Blue Moon came to be. This episode was sponsored by GreatBrewers.com - the best beer site on the internet.
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Beer Sessions Introduction: New Beer Resolutions (16:28)
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Beer Sessions, Heritage Radio Network, Jimmy Carbone, Jimmy's No 43, Ray Deter, Good Beer Seal, GreatBrewres.com, New Beers Resolutions, Dan McLaughin, The Pony Bar, first worked at Empire Brewing Company, bottled beer, selling Bud and Bud Light helps them sell more craft beer, get organized or get back on the road, ABV, 8.1% or higher is an 8 ounce pour, crowd control, alcohol by volume, beer trends for 2011, trickle down effect of good beer, Clarks Ale House, Blue Tusk, Syracuse, Irish Style Stout, Six Point Otis Oatmeal Stout, cream ale,Clean Your Draft Lines! (16:13)
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Sam Merrit, official Beer Sessions sommelier, preserving brewers intent, huge part of that is hygiene, cleaning draft lines, makes a huge difference in the taste, how can you tell?, go see how clean the bathroom is, look out for weird flavors, Jen Schwertman, clean draft lines can make mediocre beers taste great, you should clean your lines every 2 weeks, Dave Brodrick, Dave had a near death experience recently, fell of a ladder and broke 7 bones, will Dave run for office in Vermont?, brewers as community leaders, Ray's new year resolution, hipster angst against good beer go away, why do hipsters like PBR in a can?, drink local beer wherever you are!,Bad Pairings & The Story of Blue Moon (19:55)
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beer trends, the guys from Sixpoint are going to even smaller breweries, Barrier, nano brewery, Oceanside, Dave's hop crop came out pretty good, wet house, right off the vine, home brewerd beer, to create an entire hop profile you pitch hops at different points in the boil, full grain mash, Thank You Beer, some mistakes are happy mistakes, Blue Moon Brewery, wheat beers, it is not a small brewery, the truth behind Blue Moon is not well known, Coors put a brew pub at Coors Field, they went around and hand picked talented brewers and gave them an offer that they could not refuse, Blue Moon was the most successful manifestation of this project, can a good beer make a truly bad pairing?, everybody's palate is different, beer and ice cream pairings,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
First Aired - 09/28/2010 05:00PM
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This week on Beer Sessions Ray and Jimmy (plus the multi-talented Dave Broderick of Blind Tiger) sit down with an all-star cast of beer aficionados and creators. David Geary, the "dean of American craft beer", comes through the studio to talk about brewing in Scottish castles and accessing the most secretive spots of the craft beer universe. Dann Paquette and Martha Paquette talk about being "nomad" brewers: borrowing other brewer's facilities late in the eve to mash and brew...plus they discuss their heavily-researched historical reproduction beers and what beer making was like in the 19th century.
Photo 1: The famous Geary London Porter, Photo 2: Dann Paquette and Martha Paquette of Pretty Things
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Beer Sessions Introduction: David Geary (18:40)
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Beer Sessions, Jimmy's No 43, Jimmy Carbone, Heritage Radio Network, Ray Deter, d.b.a., Dave Brodrick, GreatBrewers.com, David Geary, London Porter, D.L. Geary Brewing, cask ale, The Old Toad, Portland Maine, Peter Maxwell Stewart, Samuel Smith, Scottish Breweries, Scotland, Bass, David Bruce, high gravity beer, Ringwood, Alan Pugsley, Newman's, Albany, New York, Microbrewers Conference in 1987, fewer than 30 micro-brewers in the country at that point, predictions for the future of beer, the business of beer is vibrant, Pabst Blue Ribbon, craft brewing, business is diluted, 1800 craft breweries right now, there were 16 craft breweries in 1983, exponential growth, 25-28% of the beer in Portland Maine are craft beer, Luke's Lobster, Spuyten Duyvil, do the number of taps matter in a bar?,Cellaring Beer & Pretty Things Brewery (19:39)
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Email Question, cellaring beer, David says don't do it!, only bottle conditioned beer with yeast, Hampshire Special Ale, fresher is better, high gravity with yeast present is a different story, it continues to mature and condition, Sherry like flavor from beer means its been oxidized, Pretty Things Brewery, Dann Paquette, Martha Paquette, gypsy brewery, it's NYC Craft Beer Week, Martha and Dann draw the labels, Jack D'or, malted wheat, Yorkshire oats, Martha was a scientist at MIT, Fluffy White Rabbit, Pretty Things Beer & Ale Project, historical series of beers, people don't give English brewing enough credit these days,The History of Porters & Calculator Brewing (21:52)
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Porter is a uniquely London style beer, originated in the late 18th century in the Shoreditch region of London, Porterhouses, mild brown beer, very low in alcohol, school children drank it, the malt was unrefined, pot roast, 4 years ago the New York Times blind tasted 30 porters, Geary's was considered the best Porter in New York, London Porter, distinctly late 18th century London style, what's the difference between a stout and a porter?, roasted barley instead of malted barley, the water sucked a hundred years ago, the beer today tastes better than it did then (probably), high concentrations of hops, some recipes go upwards of nine lbs per barrel of hops, Ron Pattinson, carmelization, old-fashioned flavors, long ago they could not measure alpha acids in hops, we have careful control over ingredients these days, chemical studies, David hated his own Imperial IPA, Blind Tiger Event tomorrow, NYC Brewer's Choice Thursday night, Good Beer Seal, home brew pairing,To comment on this episode click here. There are currently Comments
